University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Okla. Hardcover is blue cloth clean and bright inside and out.The dust jacket has light edgewear w/ a mended place on the inside wear the paper was separated , this does not affect the appearance of the book except for a light bleed from the glue that soaked through to the outside, this shows at and around the ISBN sign.

 This book embodies the theme that, as succeeding groups have occupied the American West and shaped the land, they have done so without regard for present inhabitants. Drawing on a recent flowering of scholarship on the western environment, western gender relations, minority history, and urban and labor history, this is about the creation of the region and the causes behind the vanishing of the frontier. Illustrated with b/w photographs, maps. 644pp.